Badlands National Park
South Dakota monument
Badlands National Park is a national park in southwestern South Dakota, known for its dramatic landscape of eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires amid mixed-grass prairie.
The terrain gives the park its name—early travelers found the land difficult to cross.
The park preserves one of the world's richest fossil beds and supports bison, bighorn sheep, and prairie dogs.
- Lakota SiouxNorthern Plains indigenous nation
- erosionGradual wearing away
- fossil bedsRock layers containing preserved organisms
- fossil huntingSeeking preserved ancient organisms
- treaty rightsPact-secured legal entitlements
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